Most families have holiday traditions, but do you know how your ancestors might have celebrated the season?

In Mexico, for example, Christmas is celebrated for nine days with Las Posadas. People dress as
Mary and Joseph, traveling from house to house to ask if Mary may stay the night. In Spain, children leave their
shoes, filled with straw, carrots and barley, on the windowsills for the horses of the Wise Men.
In England, instead of mailing a Christmas list to Santa, children throw it into the fireplace and Father Christmas
reads the smoke.

Wouldn't it be fun to incorporate some of our ancestor's traditions into your own? If your family came from
Denmark, why not leave out rice pudding for the reindeer instead of cookies? Or if you descend from a
Moravian family, put a 26-point star in the window.